• Orientation to Excel
• Central tendency and variability
• Learning unit
• 1: Mean, median, and mode
• Learning unit
• 2: variability
• Learning unit
• 3: shapes of distributions
• Probability
• Learning unit
• 4: probability and the normal distribution
• Learning unit
• 5: the standard normal distribution: z scores
• Learning unit
• 6: sampling distributions
• Evaluating the nature of effects
• Learning unit
• 7: hypothesis testing : significance, effect size, and confidence intervals
• Learning unit
• 8: power
• Comparing means : significance testing, effect size, and confidence intervals
• Learning unit
• 9: tests: one-sample, two-independent-sample, and related-samples designs
• Learning unit
• 10: one-way analysis of variance : between-subjects and repeated-measures designs
• Learning unit
• 11: two-way analysis of variance : between-subjects factorial design
• Identifying patterns and making predictions
• Learning unit
• 12: correlation
• Learning unit
• 13: linear regression
• Appendix A: Core statistical concepts
• Appendix B: Global excel skills
• Appendix C: Statistical tables.

• Preface Acknowledgments About the Author
• Part 1: Understanding what surveys are and how they are used
• 1. What is a survey?
• 2. How are surveys used?
• 3. What are the benefits of doing a survey?
• 4. What is the survey research process from beginning to end?
• 5. How are good empirical research questions developed?
• 6. What are the various types of survey design?
• 7. How do we choose the right survey design?
• Part 2: Addressing ethical concerns in survey research
• 8. What are the main ethical concerns of research?
• 9. If surveys are just about asking people questions, why are ethical considerations important?
• 10. Who ensures that research is ethical?
• 11. How Do IRBs Monitor Research Ethics?
• 12. What is the process of submitting a Survey Study to the IRB?
• 13. What is informed consent?
• 14. What Are Confidentiality and Anonymity, and How Are They Maintained?
• 15. What are the ethical concerns for collecting and analyzing data?
• Part 3: Selecting a sample
• 16. Who is asked to take the survey?
• 17. What Is a Sample, and What Is Sampling?
• 18. What is a sampling frame?
• 19. How do we know if the sample size is large enough?
• 20. How does probability work?
• 21. What is sampling theory?
• 22. What is the Central Limit Theorem?
• 23. What is random sampling error?
• 24. What are the types of probability samples?
• 25. How is a simple random sample collected?
• 26. What is stratified random sampling?
• 27. How is a proportionate stratified probability sample collected?
• 28. How is a disproportionate stratified probability sample collected?
• 29. How do we make disproportionate stratified samples representative of the population?
• 30. How is a cluster sample collected?
• 31. How do we select a sample if the population is not easy to find?
• 32. What is a response rate?
• Part 4: Writing good survey questions
• 33. What is involved in writing good survey questions?
• 34. How do we connect a theoretical concept to a survey question?
• 35. How do we write survey questions for complex theoretical concepts?
• 36. Do We Need to Create New Questions, or Can We Use Existing Questions?
• 37. What are the basic rules to writing good survey questions?
• 38. Are there more advanced rules to writing survey questions?
• 39. What are the best response options to use with survey questions?
• 40. What Is the Measurement Level of a Survey Question, and Why Is That Important?
• 41. When are open-ended questions used in survey research?
• 42. How do we order the survey questions?
• Part 5: Establishing the reliability and validity of survey questions
• 43. How do we ensure our survey questions measure what they are supposed to?
• 44. How is content validity established?
• 45. What is criterion validity?
• 46. What is construct validity?
• 47. What is measurement reliability, and how is it established?
• 48. What is measurement error?
• 49. How can measurement error be minimized?
• 50. How Can Pretesting and Pilot Testing Improve Reliability and Validity?
• Part 6: Conducting the survey
• 51. Once the survey is designed, how is the survey conducted?
• 52. How often can we contact the sample to get them to participate?
• 53. How are the potential members of the sample contacted?
• 54. How are the sample members persuaded to participate?
• 55. What should be included in a cover letter?
• 56. What other strategies can increase survey participation?
• 57. How do we keep track of who has and has not participated?
• 58. How do we conduct a longitudinal study?
• 59. What Other Survey Administration Issues May Arise?
• 60. How do we take care of survey participants?
• Part 7: Entering and cleaning the data
• 61. Do we need to plan ahead for data entry, cleaning, and analysis?
• 62. My data is collected. Now what do I do?
• 63. How do we do data entry?
• 64. What issues might arise with data entry?
• 65. What types of survey questions are difficult to enter into the database?
• 66. What is a codebook, and why is it important?
• 67. What other sorts of documentation are needed, and why?
• 68. What is data cleaning?
• 69. How Are "Other Specify" Responses Coded?
• 70. How are open-ended questions coded?
• Part 8: Exploring the data with univariate statistical analysis
• 71. What are the goals of data analysis?
• 72. What are variables?
• 73. What are descriptive statistics?
• 74. How do we estimate central tendency and variation in categorical and ordinal variables?
• 75. How do we examine central tendency in continuous variables?
• 76. How do we examine variation in continuous variables when using the median?
• 77. How do we examine variation in continuous variables when using the mean?
• 78. What are inferential statistics?
• 79. How do we infer the population parameter?
• 80. What is significance testing?
• Part 9: Assessing associations with bivariate statistical tests and regression
• 81. What is meant by association between variables?
• 82. How do we assess an association between two continuous variables?
• 83. How do we determine if a correlation between two continuous variables is statistically significant?
• 84. How do we assess association between a categorical and a continuous variable?
• 85. How do we assess association between two categorical variables?
• 86. How do we display and report these bivariate statistics?
• 87. What is linear regression, and what are its benefits?
• 88. What is OLS regression with a continuous independent variable?
• 89. How do we know if the regression coefficients are statistically significant?
• 90. How do we interpret OLS regression with a categorical independent variable?
• 91. How do we interpret linear regression with more than one predictor variable?
• 92. How do we display and report these regression statistics?
• Part 10: Writing up the analyses in report form
• 93. Who is my audience, and why does it matter?
• 94. What is a good report outline?
• 95. How much of the methodology needs to be included in the report?
• 96. What are the most important parts of the analyses to include in the report?
• 97. How do we report on the sample of respondents?
• 98. How many charts and tables should we include in the report?
• 99. How do we describe charts and tables in the report?
• 100. What is an executive summary, and why is it important? References and Resources Index.
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Students and researchers across the social sciences.
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• Vorrede und Danksagung
• Zugänge zu einem liminalen Forschungsraum
• Sicherheit im Alltagsgespräch : der Dorfbahnhof
• Terror, Subjekt und der Kurzschluss im Alltagsmilieu
• Verwundbarkeit, Heldentum und das Ethnografieren des Crashs
• Mythos, Fiktion und beschleunigte Macht : zur ideologischen Dynamik des Narrativen in gegenwärtigen Subjektivierungsregimes
• Krisenjahre, Panikzeiten : eine Feldforschung im Fluss
• Die Verwirrung der Diskurse : Zugfahrt mit Rucksack
• Übergänge und Schilderräume
• Airport Security : die Unübersichtlichkeit der Einreise
• Security, Safety, Certainty und ihre institutionelle Performanz
• Der ethnografische Weg : Prozess und Reflexion
• Zeichen und Züge : Bomben und die Abschottung der Alltagsmenschen
• Mind the Gap
• Please Take Care
• Die urbane Landschaft der Securitization
• Totalität und Leere der Sicherheit
• Seriously Strong Security : Automobile Sicherheitsmarkierungen
• Absurder Verkehr
• Baustellen : zur Geschichte der Sicherheitsregime
• Drei Baustellenszenarios
• Die Versicherung als Gesellschaftsmodell
• Der industrielle Unfall als Medium der Securitization
• Der Sozialstaat als Übergang und Knotenpunkt
• Risikogesellschaft und neoliberale Transformation
• Die Regime von Health and Safety und die präventive Sicherheit der Körper
• Site-Safe : Neoliberalismus und Aktivismus am Knotenpunkt Baustelle
• High Visibility : die Semantik der Warnweste
• Rettungsgelbe Angst
• Die Verunsicherung des Gesprächsanfangs
• Nachbarschaft in Victoria Walk : Steve und Rose
• Frauen in der Sicherheits-Bubble : Ella und Lydia
• Initiale
• Spionage, Subversion, Gemeinsamkeit
• Innenräume der Nachbarschaft
• Familie, Norm und Verunreinigung : Aileen und Daphne
• Drunghill : der intime Raum der Community
• Doing Neighbourhood : Kommunikative Sicherungspraxen
• Kontinuität, Wandel und Verwundbarkeit : die Alten
• Nachbarschaftliche Schwellenwesen : die Jugendlichen
• Such a hoodoo
• Intimität, Macht, Missbrauch : die Kinder
• Angst und Alltagserzählen
• Weihnachtsgeschichten
• Just keep us constantly worrying
• Die Narrativität der Gefahr
• Das Baby auf dem Rücksitz
• Kettenbriefe, Verschvvörungstheorien und andere digitale Verunsicherungen
• Newsflashs : Titeleien und die Zirkulation der Unsicherheit
• Nachbarschaftskrimi im Dunkeln
• Der Tod im Pub-Garten und die Angst des Sozialen
• Christophers Verschwinden und die Allsichtbarkeit der Sicherheit
• Einbruch und Erfahrung
• Community Safety Policing und die Einbrecher an der Hintertür
• Erste Erfahrungsgeschichte : der Einbruch ins Daheim
• Der Riss im Leben und die Wiedergewinnung von Alltag
• Zweite Erfahrungsgeschichte : der Unfall
• Dritte Erfahrungsgeschichte : die Katastrophe
• Die absurde Welt der Sicherheit
• Von der Ambivalenz des Alltäglichen zur Paradoxie der Sicherheit
• Die unsichtbare Wand im Alltag
• Das absurde Selbst und die Angst : Wiederbegegnung mit Albert Camus
• Das Lachen der Alltagsmenschen : Erfahrung und Widerständigkeit
• Flapjacks oder : Wenn Ethnografie Schwanke erzählt
• Abbildungsverzeichnis
• Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis
• Literatur
• Filme, Radio- und Fernsehsendungen, Webseiten und Zeitungsartikel.

"From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange, and often contradictory history of Western parenting"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Consumer Capitalism and Addiction
• PART I: The Shifting Problem of Consumption
• 1. Luxurious Excess: The Emergence of Commodity Culture
• 2. Industrial Modernity: The Birth of the Addict
• 3. Intensified Consumption and the Expansion of Addiction
• PART II: Addictive Consumptions: Drugs, Food, Gambling
• 4. Drugs: Intoxicating Consumption
• 5. Food: Embodied Consumption
• 6. Gambling: Dematerialised Consumption
• Afterword.
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In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she investigates the ways that understandings of `the problems of consumption' change over time, and asks what these changes can tell us about their wider social and political contexts. Through this, she uses ideas about both consumption and addiction to explore issues around identity and desire, excess and control and reason and disorder. She also assesses how our concept of 'normal' consumption has grown out of efforts to regulate behaviour historically considered as disruptive or deviant, and how in the contemporary world the 'dark side' of consumption has been medicalised in terms of addiction, pathology and irrationality. By drawing on case studies of drugs, food and gambling, the volume demonstrates the ways in which modern practices of consumption are rooted in historical processes and embedded in geopolitical structures of power. It not only asks how modern consumer culture came to be in the form it is today, but also questions what its various manifestations can tell us about wider issues in capitalist modernity. Addictive Consumption offers a compelling new perspective on the origins, development and problems of consumption in modern society. The volume's interdisciplinary profile will appeal to scholars and students in sociology, psychology, history, philosophy and anthropology.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780415268271 20181119

How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young peopleBoyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affinity networks, Affinity Online considers how young people have found new opportunities for expanded learning in the digital age. These cases reveal the shared characteristics and unique cultures and practices of different online affinity networks, and how they support "connected learning"-learning that brings together youth interests, social activity, and accomplishment in civic, academic, and career relevant arenas. Although involvement in online communities is an established fixture of growing up in the networked age, participation in these spaces show how young people are actively taking up new media for their own engaged learning and social development. While providing a wealth of positive examples for how the online world provides new opportunities for learning, the book also examines the ways in which these communities still reproduce inequalities based on gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The book concludes with a set of concrete suggestions for how the positive learning opportunities offered by online communities could be made available to more young people, at school and at home. Affinity Online explores how online practices and networks bridge the divide between in-school and out-of-school learning, finding that online affinity networks are creating new spaces of opportunity for realizing the ideals of connected learning.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781479852758 20190211

• Introduction: the African Union Development Agency and Africa's transformation in the twenty-first century: innovation or continuity?--
• 1. An analytical framework to explain the origin, development, and effects of AUDA--
• 2. The foundations and first generations of structural adjustment programs--
• 3. Partial reorientation of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank discourse and the creation of AUDA--
• 4. AUDA and international financial institutions: change or continuity?--
• 5. AUDA in the twenty-first century: evolution, implementation of key programs, institutional development, and inter-state coperation--
• 6. Financing Africa's development in the twenty-first century: assessment and perspectives of AUDA's resource mobilization strategy--
• 7. The way forward to transforming Africa by 2030/2063: resource mobilization, financing, and capacity-building strategies for effective delivery of the sustainable development goals and the African Union Agenda 2063-- Conclusion: continental development fifteen years after the creation of AUDA: theoretical and practical implications.
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Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing economies. This powerful book traces new continental institutions for development and their capacity to affect economic growth, regional integration, and international cooperation in Africa. It also assesses Africa's ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union's Agenda 2063. As the continent's most ambitious development initiative since independence, the African Union Development Agency (or AUDA, previously known as the New Partnership for Africa's Development or NEPAD) provides an excellent case study for examining how an African-based, continent-wide development institution emerged. Inspired by the ideas of Pan-Africanism and the African renaissance, NEPAD was created to bring Africa into the globalizing world, to close the gap between developing and developed countries, to enhance economic growth, and to eradicate poverty. Almost two decades after NEPAD's creation and given its transformation into AUDA, this brilliant book examines AUDA's role in achieving these goals.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781108456203 20190128

• Prologue
• Chapter 1. Liberalism
• Chapter 2. Mythologies
• Chapter 3. Law
• Chapter 4. Authority
• Chapter 5. Histories
• Chapter 6. Trade Epilogue
• Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments.
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As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler. In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa's kings required Iberian traders to participate in elaborate diplomatic rituals, establish treaties, and negotiate trade practices with autonomous territories. And he shows how Iberians based their interpretations of African sovereignty on medieval European political precepts grounded in Roman civil and canon law. In the eyes of Iberians, the extent to which Africa's polities conformed to these norms played a significant role in determining who was, and who was not, a sovereign people-a judgment that shaped who could legitimately be enslaved. Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. By asking in what manner did Europeans and Africans configure sovereignty, polities, and subject status, Bennett offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves' experiences in the Americas.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780812250633 20181217

• Introduction: Not to be left behind: African languages, media and the digital sphere
• 1. Access, Skills, African Perspectives and `Development'? in Africa: Local Knowledge in Local Languages
• 2. Alaroye, Isolezwe and the adoption of digital technologies
• 3. Okun Radio Online as an Impetus for Maintaining the Dialects and Cultural Heritage of Okun-Yoruba People
• 4. Grassroots Media and Social Media Adaptation: Case Study of Urhobo Today
• 5. Breaking Protocol: Indigenous Language Usage Practices in Online Readers' Comments in Zimbabwe
• 6. Perceptions of and motivations for accessing Swahili Online newspapers among students at the University of Dar es Salaam
• 7. Use of Indigenous Languages for Social Media Communication: The Nigerian Experience
• 8. Politics of language, ethnicity, and identity in Zimbabwean ethnolinguistic online communities
• 9. `Digital Chieftaincy': Social Media, Register and Community Policing in Kenya
• 10. New Technologies, Indigenous Language Media Practice and Management for Development in Nigeria
• 11. Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media: The YoruIbai example
• 12. African language online journalism in Malawi: Challenges and Prospects.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

While some academic attention has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese, there is a dearth of research into African language digital communication. This book analyses the online presence of African language media. The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance, and audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp have been appropriated by African language media. Using a wide range of case studies, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media, and how the technologies have impacted journalistic practice and media operations. Examining the ability of the African language press to adopt new technologies, this book will be of interest to scholars of media, journalism, communication, social media and culture in Africa.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780815359548 20181227

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Acronyms
• Foreword
• Introduction: In the Traditions of Professor Victor C. Uchendu and Professor Ifi Amadiume: African Women and the Challenge of Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
• 1. The Mobile Ecosystem and Internet Access on the African Content: Asymmetry and the Gender Digital Divide
• 2. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Zimbabwe
• 3. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Tanzania,
• 2010 and 2015-2016
• 4. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Malawi,
• 2010 and 2015-2016
• 5. ICT, Diffusion of Knowledge to Women, Gender Inclusive Governance, and Impacts on Women's Lives in Three African Nations
• Conclusion
• References
• Index
• References
• Biography.
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How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control, regulation quality, government effectiveness, political stability/no violence, and voice and accountability. However, these indicators fall short: they do note emphasize gender equity or pro-poor policies. Writing from an African feminist scholar-activist perspective, Assata Zerai emphasizes the voices of women in two ways: (1) she examines how women's access to ICT makes a difference to the success of people-centered governance structures; and (2) she demonstrates how African women's scholarship, too often marginalized, must be used to expand and redefine the goals and indicators of democratice governance in African countries. Challenging the status quo that praises the contributions of cell phones to the diffusion of knowledge and resultant better governance in Africa, this book is an important read for scholars of politics and technology, gender and politics, and African Studies.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138559363 20181112

• Part 1: The politics of African mining
• Harmonizing African resource politics? Lessons from the African Mineral Development Centre / Rodger Barnes, Kojo Busia and Marit Kitaw
• Evaluating conflict risks in Africa's resource governance / Kathryn Sturman and Fitsum Weldegiorgis
• Chinese mining in Africa and its global controversy / Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong
• Field vignette. Moving from prescriptive to performance based regulation: the case of waste management / Andy Fourie, Mwiya Songolo and James McIntosh
• Field vignette. Ghana's policy on artisanal and small-scale mining / Benjamin Aryee
• Part II: Data and models: supporting strategic planning for Africa's minerals
• Developing accurate and accessible geoscience data for sustainable mining in Africa / Judith A. Kinnaird and Raymond J. Durrheim
• Challenges in measuring the local and regional contributions of mining: lessons from case studies in Rwanda, Zambia and Ghana / Julia Horsley and Shabbir Ahmed
• Measuring transformative development from mining: a case study of Madagascar / Fitsum Weldegiorgis and Cristian Parra
• Field vignette. The extractives dependence index and its impact on Africa / Degol Hailu and Chinpihoi Kipgen
• Field vignette. The West African Exploration Initiative (WAXI) as a model for collaborative research and development / M.W. Jessel and WAXI Team
• Part III: Environment, health and innovation
• Conservation priorities and extractive industries in Africa: opportunities for conflict prevention / Mahlette Betre, Marielle Canter Weikel, Romy Chevallier, Janet Edmond, Rosimeiry Portela, Zachary Wells, and Jennifer Blaha
• Ebola and emerging infectious diseases : managing risks to the mining industry / Osman A Dar, Francesca Viliani, Hisham Tariq, Emmeline Buckley, Abbas Omaar, Eloghene Otobo and David L. Heymann
• Mineral investment decision making in Africa: a real options approach in integrating price and environmental risks / Kwasi Ampofo and Alidu Babatu Adam
• The potential of Zambian copper-cobalt metallophytes for phytoremediation of minerals wastes / Antony van der Ent, Peter Erskine, Royd Vinya, Jolanta Mesjasz-Przybylowicz and François Malaisse
• Field vignette. South Africa's underground women miners / Asanda Benya
• Field vignette. Sapphire mining, water and maternal health in Madagascar / Lynda Lawson
• Part IV: Reconciling scales of mining governance
• Strategies for working with artisanal and small-scale miners in Sub-Saharan Africa / Nina Collins and Lynda Lawson
• Artisanal and small-scale mining community health, safety, and sanitations: a water focus / Danellie Lynas and Gernelyn Logrosa and Ben Fawcett
• Gauging the effectiveness of certification schemes and standards for responsible mining in Africa / Renzo Mori Junior
• Field vignette. The Australia-Africa Minerals and Energy Group (AAMEG) / Trish O'Reilly
• Field vignette. Sourcing conflict free minerals from central Africa / Stephen B. Young
• Conclusion: a multifaceted fortune / Kathryn Sturman and Saleem H. Ali.

For too long Africa's mineral fortune has been lamented as a resource curse that has led to conflict rather than development for much of the continent. Yet times are changing and the opportunities to bring technical expertise on modern mining alongside appropriate governance mechanisms for social development are becoming more accessible in Africa. This book synthesizes perspectives from multiple disciplines to address Africa's development goals in relation to its mineral resources. The authors cover ways of addressing a range of policy challenges, environmental concerns, and public health impacts and also consider the role of globalization within the extractive industries. Academic research is coupled with key field vignettes from practitioners exemplifying case studies throughout. The book summarizes the challenges of natural resource governance, suggesting ways in which mining can be more effectively managed in Africa. By providing an analytical framework it highlights the essential intersection between natural and social sciences, central to efficient and effective harnessing of the potential for minerals and mining to be a contributor to positive development in Africa. It will be of interest to policy makers, industry professionals, and researchers in the extractive industries, as well as to the broader development community.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138606920 20181227

• Introduction: the soul of democracy
• A declaration of interdependence: the science of democracy
• "The lightning of possible storms": theories of social change
• "Go social, go green": environmentally sound and socially just economic development
• "Belonging, not belongings": an economy of gratitude and reciprocity
• Global connections and cultural humility: the science and artistry of community engagement
• Just living: practices of catalytic social engagement
• Conclusion: the soul of democracy.

From the Women's March in D.C. to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. Yet, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and megaphones have been packed away. After the protests are heard, how can we continue to work toward lasting change?

• Introduction: Home or exile in the digital future
• Part I: The foundations of surveillance capitalism. August 9,
• 2011: setting the stage for surveillance capitalism ; The discovery of behavioral surplus ; The moat around the castle ; The elaboration of surveillance capitalism: kidnap, corner, compete ; Hijacked: the division of learning in society
• Part II: The advance of surveillance capitalism. The reality business ; Rendition: from experience to data ; Rendition from the depths ; Make them dance ; The right to the future tense
• Part III: Instrumentarian power for a third modernity. Two species of power ; Big Other and the rise of instrumentarian power ; A utopia of certainty ; The instrumentarian collective ; Of life in the hive ; The right to sanctuary
• Conclusion: A coup from above.

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism, " and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. Shoshana Zuboff's interdisciplinary breadth and depth enable her to come to grips with the social, political, business, and technological meaning of the changes taking place in our time. We are at a critical juncture in the confrontation between the vast power of giant high-tech companies and government, the hidden economic logic of surveillance capitalism, and the propaganda of machine supremacy that threaten to shape and control human life. Will the brazen new methods of social engineering and behavior modification threaten individual autonomy and democratic rights and introduce extreme new forms of social inequality? Or will the promise of the digital age be one of individual empowerment and democratization? The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. Rather, it offers a deeply reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization in the twenty-first century. The stark issue at hand is whether we will be the masters of information and machines or its slaves.
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• Home or exile in the digital future
• August 9, 2011 : setting the stage for surveillance capitalism
• The discovery of behavioral surplus
• The moat around the castle
• The elaboration of surveillance capitalism : kidnap, corner, compete
• Hijacked : the division of learning in society
• The reality business
• Rendition : from experience to data
• Rendition from the depths
• Make them dance
• The right to the future tense
• Two species of power
• Big other and the rise of instrumentarian power
• A utopia of certainty
• The instrumentarian collective
• Of life in the hive
• The right to sanctuary
• A coup from above.

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism, " and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. Shoshana Zuboff's interdisciplinary breadth and depth enable her to come to grips with the social, political, business, and technological meaning of the changes taking place in our time. We are at a critical juncture in the confrontation between the vast power of giant high-tech companies and government, the hidden economic logic of surveillance capitalism, and the propaganda of machine supremacy that threaten to shape and control human life. Will the brazen new methods of social engineering and behavior modification threaten individual autonomy and democratic rights and introduce extreme new forms of social inequality? Or will the promise of the digital age be one of individual empowerment and democratization? The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. Rather, it offers a deeply reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization in the twenty-first century. The stark issue at hand is whether we will be the masters of information and machines or its slaves.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781610395694 20190204